Across Hyderabad, young people are rediscovering the charm of Urdu, gathering in heritage venues and creative spaces to share ...

Once you’ve got these, you’ve learned a third of the poem, since this repeating couplet functions as a ... Poetry is older than writing, and many of its features originated as aids to memory ...

More recent readers have agreed. Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin ...

And, an interlude in the form of an empty patio. Even before crafting this poem, I doubted if I could write about this building. It’s no Farmer or Mcvey. But as an engineering major, I found an ...

There's still time to enter the Live Out Proud Poetry Contest hosted by Rainbow Alliance & NEPA Pride Project. In its 2024 edition, Jolene Maleski of Wilkes-Barre was the first-place winner with her ...

In 17th-century English poetry, lustful swains (often shepherds, for some reason) are always beseeching their beloveds to “make much of time” and get busy. Andrew Marvell, whose couplets we ...

So why is it that people who “can’t write poetry” really do stop right there and never write poems? The fear of failure is so huge for poetry. Before we start, we’re thinking about Emily ...

Summer always comes earlier than we’d like it to here in Phoenix. But there are some benefits to that. For example, we get a ...